Balzac caste society
The text "The Artist's Life" by Honoré de Balzac in the "Physiology of the elegant life" first appeared 1830th He describes one of the three aspects of the company image of Balzac.
Balzac observed during his lifetime from 1799 to 1850 three basic types of human life: working life, the artist's life and the elegant life. The worker
define his life in that he was working. He lived to survive. Consequently, he is just an instrument of his work, de-individualized, not intellectually free and pursuing not a high goal. Balzac differentiated, however, between different types of workers: the day laborers and soldiers, the number would be zero (zero is multiplied by some zero), the agency officials, the tailors that match would have the numbers between zero and one, and the lawyers and doctors who correspond to the number one would.
The artist defines his life in that he thinks. He freely live. It is free of social conventions, individually, create new ideas and dominant society.
The Elegant define his life in that he was doing nothing. He lived to revive the peace. Preliminary he was subject to a total exclusion of the work. No one can live elegantly, if Once he had come into contact with the work.
By Balzac's descriptions can be found a clear hierarchy or ranking within the three forms of life: beauty and elegance as the good. Elegance can be abstracted here from the "first and second level" defined as intellectual freedom, ease and sophistication.
be considered critical of Balzac's system as a kind of human-class thinking. In this conflict has its own critical intention of Balzac and his own inclusion in the system. Still does, however, from the parent position of the artist to the society a moral responsibility towards their deduced. The artist must society lead (reference Lukács). This role is however in conflict with the otherwise very different view from the romantic artist's life. Another question that arises is whether this classification is still correct to our present day, and whether she has ever applied at all?
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blog post written by Tim Pauli
rate: Q 3 / 4 PL1 and PL1 HEM
Date: 15.11.2010
topic: Honore de Balzac, artist life, art as a photocopy of the social relations
The text "The Artist's Life" by Honoré de Balzac in the "Physiology of the elegant life" first appeared 1830th He describes one of the three aspects of the company image of Balzac.
Balzac observed during his lifetime from 1799 to 1850 three basic types of human life: working life, the artist's life and the elegant life. The worker
define his life in that he was working. He lived to survive. Consequently, he is just an instrument of his work, de-individualized, not intellectually free and pursuing not a high goal. Balzac differentiated, however, between different types of workers: the day laborers and soldiers, the number would be zero (zero is multiplied by some zero), the agency officials, the tailors that match would have the numbers between zero and one, and the lawyers and doctors who correspond to the number one would.
The artist defines his life in that he thinks. He freely live. It is free of social conventions, individually, create new ideas and dominant society.
The Elegant define his life in that he was doing nothing. He lived to revive the peace. Preliminary he was subject to a total exclusion of the work. No one can live elegantly, if Once he had come into contact with the work.
By Balzac's descriptions can be found a clear hierarchy or ranking within the three forms of life: beauty and elegance as the good. Elegance can be abstracted here from the "first and second level" defined as intellectual freedom, ease and sophistication.
be considered critical of Balzac's system as a kind of human-class thinking. In this conflict has its own critical intention of Balzac and his own inclusion in the system. Still does, however, from the parent position of the artist to the society a moral responsibility towards their deduced. The artist must society lead (reference Lukács). This role is however in conflict with the otherwise very different view from the romantic artist's life. Another question that arises is whether this classification is still correct to our present day, and whether she has ever applied at all?
Formal:
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blog post written by Tim Pauli
rate: Q 3 / 4 PL1 and PL1 HEM
Date: 15.11.2010
topic: Honore de Balzac, artist life, art as a photocopy of the social relations
